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Building Bridges
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”- Rita Mae Brown Recently I have been culling through old photos and came to the conclusion that my photography, and its subjects, hasn’t dramatically changed in the past 10 years. It’s as if I am a mad man,…
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2025 Picking Pics (from a westernized perspective)
I’ve decided to review my photos for 2025 and select a few for posting to help analyze why they speak to me. Curating photos is difficult for the photographer. I’m sure the professionals would disagree, but the truth is that a hobbyist, by definition, isn’t a pro and therefore, requires more TIME to complete the…
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Architectural Vulnerability
by James V October 24, 2020 Urban architecture has always fascinated me. From when I was eight years old, I dreamed of designing a high rise. I still do and the ideas for one continuously gestate in my mind. I wanted green terraces in the late 1980’s, floating in the middle of a skyscraper. Actually,…
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The City That Never Sleeps
The Christmas holidays distort reality in New York City. For a short time, the visitors revel in the holiday spirit, the street performers cater to the holiday cheer and the windows on 5th Avenue are decorated to interest the tourist with a style that is all New York… Sigma Bf, Meike 55mm 1.8 Pro But…
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The Fog
A mile East of here lies Manhattan Island. To be invisible from this location, a dense fog must take hold over the river and grip the atmosphere with a stranglehold; such is the overt presence of a 22.8 sq. mile island with more than 100,000 buildings and 1.6-1.7 million residents. Buildings reach more than 1400…
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Some BS from the Bf
Speaking to self: “I’m going to use that 24mm I bought when I purchased the camera and try for some dramatic photos of landscape. And you know what else? Maybe I could stop off in a small town and come up with some interesting photos of the place on the way to the reservoir/lake.” Problem…
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NYC Street Portraits
Technically flawed, spontaneously captured, “run and gun,” trying to keep up with the hustle and bustle. I present those that visit, those that work and those that live…in NYC. December 2025 All images taken with the Sigma Bf camera and Sigma 45mm 2.8 lens.
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Quantum Photography
by James V (originally from October 31, 2020) Forward (Present Day) My initial paragraph is lost from this post. In a nutshell, I was reading and exploring the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom, among other talents, was a famous street photographer from the 20th century. What I find interesting is the ability of HCB’s photos…
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Can you grab some bagels?
I woke up this morning to another grey sky day and it seems December is transforming into November. The Art of Noise has a wonderful song named Opus 4 and I suggest, when you have a chance (preferably in November), to play it on your typically cloudy mid-autumn leafless day. No sun, no birds, no…
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Is the Sigma Bf just BS?
Edited 12/8/2025 and 12/10/2025 I recently made what seems to be, an impetuous decision: I purchased a Sigma Bf camera. As a hobbyist photographer, rest assured that on behalf of all of us, I admit to an assumed collective shortcoming of having fallen victim to “gear acquisition syndrome.” Cliche confirmed. In the process of this…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 